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The opening narration of Dragnet, the long running TV series about two Los Angeles cops, could not be a more fitting way to open a case study on the Chicago Police Department's (CPD) Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis Reporting System (CLEAR) and its dramatic journey into the Department of Defense (DOD). The quickest way to describe CLEAR is to mention a quote from Ron Huberman, assistant deputy superintendent, Office of Information and Strategic Services at CPD "CLEAR automates everything we do in the [Chicago] police department, from personnel management to detailed field incident reports. It includes the entire arrest and booking process: taking offenders into custody, mug shots, everything. CLEAR places it all in one integrated platform. It's enabled us to become a completely paperless police department...All information will be in the hands of the officers, making them better equipped to protect our communities." This study focuses on the problem of how to enhance the situational awareness (SA) of a young solider or marine manning a checkpoint in Iraq and how information technology (IT) might be used to help him/her better understand the regional demographic, thereby increasing the number of bad guys caught. The IT in question is CLEAR, a commercial-off-the- shelf (COTS) tool developed to assist the beat cop in the arrest and bookings process. CLEAR provides a rapid and accurate assessment of an individual's information based on rudimentary biometric triggers that drive the correlation of data in an advanced data-mining tool. Data collected at the beat cop level populates a growing data universe and also drives mapping overlay capability at higher headquarters, which can be used to enable real-time, 24/7 force development decisions. Such capabilities have obvious potential for military use. |
